Diablo Cody Quotes

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

As a representative of women let my message be: Yes you can.

I love seeing women do what they do.

I want to get up and celebrate something - and why not celebrate being a woman?

The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.

I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.

Women have been kicking ass for centuries.

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.

Women inspire me... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women.

There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.

Women have always been incredible. They've always been amazing.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

It's wonderful that we're portraying women in this way so that young women can see that women actually are strong and capable of accomplishing all kinds of things.

It's so great that women are being allowed to be heroes in big things.

I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.

Women have always been strong; women have been capable and able and amazing at life.